单词 | nisenan |
释义 | Nisenann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a North American Indian people living at the time of first European contact in northern California. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North California and South Washington > [noun] Multnomah1804 Palouse1827 Ohlone1831 Haida1841 Shasta1843 Karok1851 Wiyot1851 Pomo1852 Hupa1853 Modoc1854 Wishram1855 Yuki1858 Nisenan1873 Achumawi1874 Takelma1881 Shastan1910 Yana1910 Yahi1911 Pomoan1979 1873 S. Powers in Overland Monthly Apr. 324/2 As to tribal distribution, the Meewocs north of the Stanislaus, like the Neeshenams, designate principally by the points of the compass. 1881 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 10 443 The Nishinams of California have a legend of its [sc. cremation's] introduction, as if they thought it not always the custom. 1904 Science 17 June 914/2 The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses the Sierra Nevada between the Yuba and American Rivers in the territory of the Nis-se-non (or Nishinam), a branch of the so-called Midu (Mi-doo) stock. 1934 Amer. Anthropologist 36 509 The mountain Nisenan burlesqued the sacred dances of their foothill neighbours. 1966 Current Status Anthropol. Res. Great Basin 42 The western foothills of the Sierra Nevada where the Washo intermarried with the Nisenan. 1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VIII. 397/1 Writers of the mid-nineteenth century aften referred to the Nisenan according to the names of their villages. 2. The Maiduan language spoken by the Nisenan. ΚΠ 1877 S. Powers Tribes of California xxxi. 314 As to language, the Maidu shades away so gradually into the Nishinam that it is extremely difficult to draw the line anywhere. 1966 H. J. Uldall & W. Shipley Nisenan Texts & Dict. 4 It was decided that Uldall would work on Southern Maidu (now called Nisenan). 1976 T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 438 The special difficulty with Proto-Maiduan phonology is a particularly interesting one: although identity correspondences abound in the lexical correspondences..,the grammatical structures of Maidu, Konkow and Nisenan are very disparate. 1997 L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. 128/2 Nisenan, Konkow, and Maidu are very closely related but are mutually unintelligible. B. adj. (attributive). Designating, of, or relating to the Nisenan or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North California and South Washington > [adjective] Palouse1836 Haida1841 Shasta1843 Pit River1851 Yurok1851 Modoc1854 Pomo1872 Achumawi1874 Yuki1875 Nisenan1877 Takelma1907 Shastan1910 Yahi1911 Wiyot1918 Ohlone1964 1877 S. Powers Tribes of California xxxi. 314 The Nishinam language varies greatly within itself. 1890 Science 30 May 336/1 The Nishinam Game Ha and the Boston Game Props. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 15 434 The Makhelchel and Nishinam Indians of California formerly put their women to death for marrying or committing adultery with white men. 1972 E. W. Ritter & P. D. Schulz (title) Papers on Nisenan environment and subsistence. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1873 |
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